Exclusive: Screenwriter Amy Talkington has made a deal for her first novel with Soho Teen, the young adult imprint of Soho Press. The novel, Liv, Forever, will be published next March, and a film package is quickly being assembled that has Talkington attached to adapt and Offspring Entertainment producing. They will shop it to studios shortly. Talkington has a lot going on as a screenwriter, including scripting the Clay Weiner-directed Valley Girl at MGM, the Alex Timbers-directed Hotfuss at Disney and the Jonathan Levine-directed Under Cover at Lionsgate. The novel aspires to be Ghost for the Twilight generation. Liv Bloom is murdered shortly after arriving at a prestigious New England boarding school. Her spirit remains and with the help of two boys–one of whom she’s fallen for and the other she reluctantly is trusting–she tries to solve her own murder. Offspring’s Adam Shankman...
- 7/31/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
It's a pretty great time to be in when David O. Russell is as talked-about a director as any in Hollywood. That certainly wasn't the case in years past, or when it was, the subject was the director's temperament rather than his work. But since taking The Fighter he's been looking at many new projects -- at times quickly flipping from one to the next -- almost as if he's trying to weave and juke his way to a surprise 'next film' announcement. Now there is word that the long-gestating film Cocaine Cowboys is his latest possible next project. The Playlist [1] spoke to the director briefly at the Ace Eddie Awards over the past weekend, and when asked about what he's making next. Mr. Russell said, I’m working on Drake’s Fortune right now. I’m really digging it, I think the story’s coming together in a really intense cool way,...
- 2/23/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Even though the news back in August was that he had walked away from the project after protracted negotiations, Sony announced yesterday that David O. Russell had signed on to write and direct Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, an adaptation of the adventure video game about an Indiana Jones-esque treasure hunter. Russell, who has The Fighter coming out later this year, has been flitting on and off a lot of different projects lately. Just a few days ago he walked away from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, essentially dooming the project; he and Vince Vaughn also have vague plans to make the comedy Old St. Louis, and he was also considering the Jim Carrey comedy Under Cover, though odds are now he'll be far too busy to consider that one. Russell hasn't released a film since 2004's I Heart Huckabees, mostly thanks to the disastrous shoot of the still-unfinished political comedy Nailed,...
- 10/9/2010
- cinemablend.com
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